{"id":22623,"date":"2022-02-27T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=22623"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:45:03","slug":"album-review-the-monochrome-set-allhallowtide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/27\/album-review-the-monochrome-set-allhallowtide\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Monochrome Set \u2013 Allhallowtide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22624\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monochrome_set_allhallowtide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monochrome_set_allhallowtide.jpg 700w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monochrome_set_allhallowtide-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/monochrome_set_allhallowtide-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The Monochrome Set left behind their punk trappings years ago; these days Bid employs a vast sonic palette to craft fetching, sophisticated music that draws from English Music hall as much as anything else. In that regard he deserves to be thought of as a peer with singular, idiosyncratic artists like Elvis Costello. His pop songwriting and arrangement values give his songs a sweeping, cinematic character that\u2019s breathtakingly exciting.<\/p>\n<p>It may not be at all clear to the listener what a song such as \u201cBallad of the Flaming Man\u201d is going on about, but it\u2019s thrilling nonetheless. There\u2019s a classic country vibe underpinning \u201cMy Deep Shoreline,\u201d one that subtly recalls Nick Lowe. And Martin Denny-style exotica gently informs \u201cMoon Garden.\u201d The distinctive combo organ that runs through \u201cReally in the Wrong Town\u201d places one foot in sixties garage, the other in the modern indie rock world. \u201cBox of Sorrows\u201d is melancholy, waltzing chamber pop with spooky, wordless vocals. <i>Allhallowtide<\/i> is musically unified and wildly eclectic all at once.<\/p>\n<p><i>Allhallowtide<\/i> is the latest creative bullseye-hit in a long string of must-have records from The Monochrome Set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monochrome Set left behind their punk trappings years ago; these days Bid employs a vast sonic palette to craft fetching, sophisticated music that draws from English Music hall as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,62,65],"tags":[1508],"class_list":["post-22623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-rawk","category-review","tag-monochrome-set","cat-39-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29501,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22623\/revisions\/29501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}